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The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale — 598 episodes
Timothy Heyman on B. Traven and how to manage a literary archive
David McKnight on Collecting The Beatles
Michael Erdman on the history of magazines (and women's rights) in Turkey
Andres M. Zervigon on Illustrated Magazines
Tony Fekete on Collecting Erotica
Siegfried Lukatis on Insel Bucherei, the iconic German book series
Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing
Book scholar Jonathan Rose on who used to read Playboy magazine and Why
Michael Lista on writing true crime, and getting optioned
Ian Birch on great magazine covers
Paul Wells on Writing Politics for Newspapers, Magazines, Books & Substack
Christopher Long on the Genius Graphics of Lucian Bernhard
Nick Anthony on AI, and writing his first Novel
John Sargent on beating Amazon & Google, and saving Books
Joshua Doležal on being a Book Coach
Andrew Nash on the value of Publishers' Archives
Marta Sylvestrova on Czech Film Poster Design
Nic Bottomley on his Reading Spas and the future of Bookselling
Nana Lohrengel on booksellers school in Milan
Ricky Cavallero on Book Publishing as Partying
Matteo Columbo on Falling in Love with Margaret Atwood
Dan Fridd on the latest in Bookselling Technology
Maria Hamrefors: Sweden's James Daunt
Barbara Hoepli on how they love Bookstores in Italy
Jeff Deutsch on a new kind of bookstore and the paradox of the browse
Book Designer Jerry Kelly on what to do once you've written your Manuscript
Justin Pemberton on how to adapt an 800-page best-seller into a documentary film
Scott Ferris on Artist and Book Illustrator Rockwell Kent
Sasha Tochilovsky on one of the greatest partnerships in magazine history
Michael Geist on the pathetic argument for extending copyright in Canada
Richard Charkin on how you too can set up a successful publishing business
Michael Torosian (Part ll) on How to Interview an Artist for a Book
Michael Torosian on Photography & making Fine Press Photography Books
John Metcalf on a lifetime of editing and publishing short stories
Anton Bogomazov on Mark LaFramboise and the role of the Bookstore Book Buyer
Tom Devlin on the rise of Drawn and Quarterly, and Graphic Novels
Shannon DeVito on her role as 'Director of Books' at B & N
Dan Paisner on being the voice of Ivanka, Serena, Whoopi, Denzel and Steve Aoki
Valerie Picard on winning Best Children's Publisher at Bologna
Martha Fleming on Canada's greatest graphic designer
Nora Krug on vigilantly illustrating Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny
Jiri Nenicka on Samizdat and Resisting Totalitarian Censorship
Naomi Bacon on Marketing Books on Social Media
Michael Zantovsky on Vaclav Havel and writing the biography of a close friend
John Owen on the best bookshop I've ever been in, in my life
Elisabeth Ruge, Germany's leading literary agent
Jonathan Landgrebe on Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany's Faber & Faber
Pamela Paul on her role as books editor at The New York Times
James Marsh on making love and encyclopedias
Nick Anthony on why he's workshopping his controversial first novel
Alexandra Pringle on arm-hair and other secrets to great editing
Marius Kociejowski reflects on the Soul of the Book Trade
Richard Katrovas on Creative Writing Programs and Publishing First Books
Mark Andrews on Collecting Books about the Science and Engineering of Water
Mark Samuels Lasner on book collecting, after the dopamine
Kat McKenna on how Tik Tok's BookTok sells books
Stephen Enniss on special collections libraries and value
Sarah Miniaci on how to publicize a book in 2022
Stuart Kells reveals the truth about Allen Lane and Penguin Books
Laura J. Miller updates us on Reluctant Capitalists her book on bookselling
Jonathan Kay on how to be a Ghostwriter
Kathryn Schulz on Death and Love, Memoirs and Essays, and
Larry Grobel on how he writes his short stories
James Wood on his role as a book critic
William Taylor on how to sell your books through an auction house
Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut on how he writes novels
Brendan Sherar on Biblio.com's Used Book Marketplace and first ever Virtual Book Fair
Glenn Horowitz on being a "notorious" bookseller & archives dealer
John Sargent on his career in book publishing
Jerry Kelly on book and bookseller catalogue design
Andrew Wylie on being a Literary Agent
Richard Charkin on the measures required to succeed in publishing
Warren Kinsella on Political Books
Steven Heller on the great book designer Alvin Lustig
Terry O'Reilly on how to market a book
Margaret Atwood on the non-role of writers
Hermione Lee on life writing, biography and biographers
John Burnside on Poetry, Attention and Truth
Jaleen Grove on Avant Garde Illustration 1900-1950
Steven Heller on graphic designer Paul Rand
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Role of the Critic
Michael Cader with evergreen advice for Book Publishers
Bill Matthews on his life in books, mostly on the West Coast
Don Stewart on MacLeod's, his iconic Vancouver bookshop
Falk Eisermann on finding and cataloguing all of the Incunabula in the World
Dan Morgan on Czech Modernist Book Design
Emma Sarconi on judging the excellence of Library Exhibition Catalogues
Publisher Jordi Nadal on reading, writing, publishing & living
Paul Delaney on writing the life of book designer Charles Ricketts
Extraordinary Canadians: Andrew Coyne on his father James Elliott Coyne
Andrew Steeves on designing books at Gaspereau Press
Michele K. Troy on The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
Steve Lomazow: the world's greatest collector of American magazines
Heather O'Neill picks Agota Kristof's The Notebook
Aimee Peake on Selling Antiquarian Books on the Prairies
Ken Whyte and Jack David on the lessons of Canadian Book Publishing
Stephen Enniss on the Relationship between Collectors and Rare Book Libraries
Meghan Constantinou with the goods on private library catalogues
Justin Schiller on Building the Greatest Children's Book Collections in the World
Stephen Azzi on Walter Gordon & the Rise of Canadian Nationalism
Don Lindgren on the importance of bookseller catalogues
Bruce Batchelor on Trafford and the beginnings of Self-Publishing
Leonard Marcus on the great 20th century children's books editor Ursula Nordstrom
Marion Sinclair on what Scotland does to help its indie publishers
Conrad Black on his Book Collections and Book Collecting
John Thompson on Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Ruth Panofsky on Writing Women back into Publishing History
Dwight Garner on Classic 20th Century American Book Ads
Mark Samuels Lasner on Fun, Friendships and Book Collecting
David Frum on why he thinks about Horatio Hornblower every day
Odette Drapeau on a lifetime of binding books in fish skin and other fabulous fabrics
Anne Giardini on Carol Shields and the new Prize for Fiction
Dan Mozersky on setting up Indigo Books in Canada
Bill Waiser on how history is written and re-written
Matt Dorfman on the best book covers of 2020
Richard Nash on the Business of Literature, Part ll
Will Schwalbe on the benefits of reading and talking about books
Jason Rovito: One of the New Antiquarians
On The Biblio File Book Club: Is Nick Carraway Gay?
Richard Ovenden on the fragility and importance of Libraries
Dan Mozersky on how to build a successful chain of bookstores
Mary Newberry on the Joys of Indexing. Yes, Indexing.
Jonathan A. Hill on the importance of bookseller catalogues
Book Collector Miriam Borden on rescuing the Yiddish language
Martin Latham on The Bookseller's Tale
Doug Minett on Canada's most Innovative Bookstore
Bianca Gillam on the role of a Special Sales Assistant at Simon & Schuster
David Gilmour on Truman Capote's slow descent into Hell
Lennie Goodings on Virago & her new memoir A Bite of the Apple
Martin Amis on his new novel Inside Story
Martin Parr on Collecting Photography Books
Lawrence Krauss on science writing, and whether or not science is art
Patrick McGahern on 51 Years of Antiquarian Bookselling
Roger Chartier on the Study of Book History and its Giants
Toby Faber tells the Untold Story of Faber & Faber
Emily Powell on dumping Amazon, and the success of her storied Bookstore
Tiphaine Guillermou on 20th Century French Book Design
Andy Hunter on Bookshop.org and how to stick it to Amazon
Benoit Forgeot, one of Paris's Top Rare Book Dealers
Anne-Solange Noble on selling English Language Rights for books published by Gallimard
Bill Samuel on William and Christina Foyle
John Freeman on Lit Hub, Editing, & Interviewing Authors
Are Libraries ripping off Publishers and Authors? Ken Whyte thinks so
Is Canadian Publishing Racist? Jael Richardson thinks so
Pierre Assouline on Gaston Gallimard, the great French publisher
Maylis Besserie on the story of her Goncourt Prize-winning First Novel
John Oakes on Grove Press Publisher Barney Rosset
Chair Jacques Shore on launching Library & Archives Canada's new Foundation
Richard Nash on the Business of Literature, Part l
David Frum on Donald Trump eating Crocodiles
Peter Florence on Hay Festival's huge 2020 on-line success
Mark Bourrie on his book Bushrunner: The Adventures of Pierre Radisson
Ian Wilson on Arthur Doughty & his monumental publishing achievement
Larry Grobel on interviewing authors for Playboy (and Podcasts)
Jonathan Rose on Reading
Reni Eddo-Lodge on how to eliminate Systemic Racism
Leslie Weir on a brand new Library & Archives Canada
David Schurman on Bloomsday Celebrations
Paul Litt on 20th Century Canadian Book Publishing Policy
Michael Dirda on his book Readings, and what to read and collect
Mitchell Kaplan on successful bookselling and turning books into films
Madeleine Thien on her novel Certainty
Sydney Smith on writing & illustrating children's books
Blake Gopnik on his big, beautiful, new biography of Andy Warhol
Don Gillmor on his memoir To the River, and what it's like to lose a brother to suicide
Helene Atwan on the Beacon Press and its social justice mission
David Gilmour and I gush over Truman Capote's short story Mojave
Paul Wright on publishing great book history books
Stephanie Burt on poetry and being trans
Simon Beattie on his phenomenally successful We Love Endpapers FB group, & more
Why visit the Osborne Collection in Toronto?
Robert Darnton on why Book History is so Exciting
Jessie Amaolo on Toronto's Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
HUP Director George Andeou on how to Read, Write, Edit & Publish
David Emblidge on four famed American Bookstores
Greg Gibson on nautical books and the lure of the unique
Heather O'Donnell on the joys of buying, selling and collecting books
Matthew Budman on his book, Book Collecting Now
Bruce Crawford on the Grolier Club, book collecting and Charles Dickens
Jerry Kelly on some of the all-time great type and book designers
Sarah McNally & Jeff Deutsch with all you need to know about Bookselling
Chip Kidd on designing dust jackets and book identities
Peter Koch on his career and the craft of fine press printing
Ann Kirkland on Literary Tourism, Travel and Tours
Steven Heller on the History of the American Book Jacket 1920-1950
Charlotte Gray on Robert Caro, and writing biography and history
Marc Côté with a candid survey of Canadian Book Publishing, past and present
Serge Loubier on the business of printing books
Sheila Fischman on translation and translating great Quebec writers into English
Janet Friskney on The New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978
Chester Gryski on collecting Canadian Fine Press Printing
Daniel Woolf on Collecting Elizabethan Histories
John Ivison on his new biography and whether or not Canadians can trust Justin Trudeau
New Editor Meghan O'Rourke on what's ahead for the Yale Review
Sandra Campbell on Lorne Pierce, one of Canada's greatest publishers
Michel Gauthier on collecting photography books
Scott deWolfe and Frank Wood on buying & selling used, antiquarian books
Ray Clemens and Diane Ducharme on the greatest book collector of all time
Interviewing Guru John Sawatsky on how to Interview an Author
Laura Claridge dishes on Blanche & Alfred Knopf
Barabara Slate on How to Do a Graphic Novel
New CEO James Daunt on what's next for Barnes & Noble
Leslie Hurtig & Jan Walter on Patriotic Canadian Publisher & Bookseller Mel Hurtig
Famed Cardiologist Bruce Fye on Collecting Medical History Books
Christopher Lyons on Sir William Osler, Book Collector
Bruce & Vicki Heyman on Justin Trudeau, the Arts, and the Canada-U.S. Relationship
Bob Rae on What's Happened to Politics
Ricardo Cayuela on Books & Reading, Publishing & Bookstores in Mexico
Jody Wilson Raybould on Justin Trudeau, telling the truth and keeping promises
Cory Doctorow on Copyright and Writing Science Fiction
Claudia Pineiro on crime fiction, and the difference between writing novels and screenplays
Alberto Manguel on Packing My Library and the Idiocy of Honesty in Politics
David Moscrop on how to make wise voting decisions during political elections
Mark Abley on why poet Duncan Campbell Scott's reputation is in tatters
Charles Foran on Mordecai Richler
Top Literary Things to do in Buenos Aires
Sharp talk from Jonathan Rose on the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Ana Maria Cabanellas on the Pleasures and Perils of Publishing in Argentina
Liliana Heker on writing under a repressive regime
Guillermo Martinez, acclaimed Argentinian novelist and short story writer, on Mathematics, Borges and Writing
Canadian Book Designer Tania Craan on her Career, Freelancing and Some Favourite Titles
Irish Novelist Eimear McBride on her work and getting it published
David Robinson on copyright, book publishing and fair dealing in Canada
Ken Lopez on Vietnam, Book Collecting and Author Archives
Barry Moser, renowned print maker, book illustrator/Designer on his books
Carey Cranston on the American Writers Museum in Chicago
David McKnight on Collecting Canadian Little Magazines and Small Presses
Levi Stahl on marketing books and how authors can best use social media
Wayson Choy on his novel All That Matters and the Immigrant Experience in Canada
James Pollock on Honest Reviewing, Anthologies and the Power of Poetry
Eric Lorberer on Rain Taxi, Literary Events and Literary Calendars
Eric Ormsby on his book of essays Fine Incisions, Book Reviewing and Tolstoy
Will Rueter on Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
Bookseller Steven Temple on finding lost Canadian literature, and more
James King on one of Canada's greatest publishers, Jack McClelland
Ken Rockburn on interviewing authors
Darrel J. McLeod on his memoir Mamaskatch, residential schools and unconditional love
Marvin Post, Used/Antiquarian bookseller, on the reasons for his success
Sarah Henstra on university life, sex, #metoo, feminism and Greek myths
Novelist Heather O'Neill on Fathers, #metoo, Class, Beauty and Roses
Prof. Katharine Streip on The Odyssey, Quentin Tarantino, and the Wine Blue Sea
Sophie Schneideman on Fine and Private Press Books
Henry Hitchings on the world in Bookshops
Canada Council on changes to its literary book publishing grant program
Nigel Roby on The Bookseller magazine
James Daunt on the Turnaround at Waterstones
Stephen Page, CEO at Faber in dialogue with founder Geoffrey
Will Atkinson on book publishing, the role of Sales and Marketing, and Fluff
Hannah Knowles on the role of the commissioning editor
Richard Charkin on the challenges facing publishing, Mother Elephants and Codfish
Anne Fadiman on her father Clifton and The Lifetime Reading Plan
David Frum on Trumpocracy and Trump: The Novel
Stephen Greenblatt on his book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Beowulf Sheehan on photographing authors
Librarian John Shoesmith on Canadian Fine Presses
Michael Torosian on his Lumiere Press
Michael Lista on Canadian Poetry, the Saudi Arms Deal, MacBeth and Men Crying
Elaine Dewar on how Canada's best publisher, and its backlist fell into foreign hands
Peggy Fox, former president and publisher of New Directions
Richard Minsky on his Book Art and Scholarship
Michel Tremblay on his play Hosanna, Quebec and Separation
Patrick deWitt on his novel The Sisters Brothers
Anna Porter on her Career in Canadian Publishing
Ian S. MacNiven on James Laughlin, Founder of New Directions
Adrian King Edwards on selling Second-Hand & Antiquarian Books in Montreal
Terence Byrnes on Photography and the Author Photograph
Bill Samuel on the history of Foyles Bookstore
Priscila Uppal on Canadian Elegies, and Mourning
Robert Lecker on literary agents in Canada, past and present
Hugh McGuire on an alternative future for book publishing
John Crombie on his Kickshaws Press
Maylis Besserie on the art of the Author Interview
Krista Halverson on the Shakespeare & Company bookshop in Paris
Jerry Rothenberg on Editing Poetry Anthologies
Professor Daniel Medin on Books in Translation
Stephen Weiner on the rise of the Graphic Novel
John Ralston Saul on Extraordinary Canadians and Lafontaine and Baldwin
Jean Guy Boin on the French Book Publishing Experience
Heloise d'Ormesson on Book Publishing in France
Pierre Astier and Laure Pecher on Literary Agents in France
Ashley Obscura on Metatron, Publishing and the Millennial Mind
Elaine Kalman Naves on Robert Weaver, Godfather of Canadian Literature
Glenn Horowitz on the sale and placement of author archives
Jonathan Galassi on FSG and Book Publishing
Jonas Hassen Khemiri on writing, memory, death, speed and language
Daniel Mendelsohn on The Odyssey, Identity, Literary Criticism and Memoir
Adam Gopnik on art criticism, love, money and New York
Matthew Zapruder on his book Why Poetry
Anita Engles on the American Bookbinders Museum
Founder Andrew Hoyem on the Arion Press
Bookseller Kris Arnett on Kona Bay Books in Hawaii
Dave Bull on Japanese Woodblock Carving and Printing
Sjon on Poetry and Iceland
Alice Notley on Poetry
Prof. Eli MacLaren on the Ryerson Press Chap-Books
Jason Guriel on Poems, Poetry, Criticism and Critics
Poet Gillian Clarke on Welsh poetry, truth, and the importance of creativity in education
Prof. Nick Mount addresses critics of Arrival: The Story of CanLit
Zach Wells on his book of essays Career Limiting Moves
Ivan Klima on his memoir My Crazy Century
Guy Baxter on the University of Reading's Archive of British Publishing and Printing, and Ladybird and Beckett
John Cole on the history of the Library of Congress
Stephan Delbos on Prague and Poetry
Jean Louis Maitre on Printing and Typographie in Tours, France
Lauren Elkin on her book Flaneuse
Jo Furber on Dylan Thomas and why you should visit Wales
David Esslemont on Thomas Bewick, Wood Engraver
Gaylord Schanilec on his press Midnight Paper Sales
David Esslemont on the history of the Gregynog and Solmentes Presses
Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Harvard and Kingston
Prof. Maggie Hennefeld on Satire in the Age of Trump
Scott Griffin on his memoir My Heart Is Africa
Publisher Simon Dardick on Vehicule Press
Glenn Dixon on Musical Tourism
Marcello Di Cintio on his Literary Pilgrimage to Iran
Rae Armantrout on Poetry, Place, William Carlos Williams and San Diego
Michael & Winifred Bixler on Letterpress Printing and Monotype
David Mason on his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder
Matthew Tree on the Best Literary Things to do in Barcelona
George Tremlett on Dylan and Caitlin Thomas
Annie Haden on Dylan Thomas, Richard Burton, Swansea and Wales
Andre Alexis accuses David Gilmour of Racism
Alberto Manguel on his favourite libraries and bookstores
Betsy Sherman on Arrowhead and Herman Melville
Kelsey Mullen on Edith Wharton and The Mount
Cameron Anstee on the visual canon of Canadian Book Design
Bill Reese on book selling and book collecting,
Walter Bachinski on his Shanty Bay Press
Thomas King on myth and storytelling, Lethbridge and the Alberta Landscape
Rod Anstee: Anatomy of a Kerouac Collector
Alexander Monker on Collecting Canadian Poetry Books
Abigail Rorer on The Lone Oak Press
Literary Tourist visits Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires
Rebecca Romney on Las Vegas, Aldus, Aldine, William Pickering and Collecting Fine Press Books
Peter Michel on Books about Gambling
Richard Minsky on The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930
Barbara Slate on Comics, Graphic Novels, Betty, Veronica and Archie
Stephen Motika on New York's Poet's House
Eric Chase on the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl
Richard Minsky on Artists Books and Traditional Book Arts
Edward Rutherfurd on his novel Paris and Literary Tourism
Karl Laderoute on Why Nietzsche Matters
Prof. Nicholas Margaritis on Literary Critic George Saintsbury
Prof. David Southward on Lionel Trilling
Prof. Edwin Conner on Longinus and the Sublime
Karla Boos on Dream of Autumn a play by Jon Fosse
Emilio Gil on the History of Modern Spanish Book Design
Curator Lucy Mulroney on the Grove Press
Interview with Australian Poet Mark Tredinnick
Maurice Podbrey on producing Waiting for the Barbarians
Michael Lista on Ethics and Honesty in Poetry Reviews
Robert Fowler on al-Qaeda, Mali, Newtown and Terrorism
Corey Redekop on his novel Husk, and zombies
Laurie Lewis on Book Design and the University of Toronto Press
Ross King on Leonardo and the Last Supper
Poet Julie Bruck on Monkey Ranch
Linda Spalding on her novel The Purchase
Charlie Foran on Wingham, Ontario and Alice Munro
Stephanie Hlywak on Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation
Crime Novelist Jason Webster on Valencia and Chief Inspector Max Camara
Eric Timmreck on the Shared Inquiry method of discussing great books
Terry Fallis meets The Literary Tourist on Parliament Hill
Top 10 Literary things for you to do in Houston
Randall Speller on Canadian Book Design and collecting
Curator Amanda Stevenson on Houston's Museum of Printing History
Owner Nancy Bass Wyden talks about the Strand Bookstore
Founder Miranda Hill on Project Bookmark Canada
Professor Adam Barrows on The Hogarth Press
Terry Cook on the Importance of History, and Library and Archives Canada
Brian Busby on Montreal Noir and its Pulp Fiction
David Theis on his book Literary Houston
Michele Rackham on Betty Sutherland and Canadian Book Design
Peter Dorn on his Heinrich Heine Press
Brian Busby on Literary Montreal
William Toye on Canadian Book Design
Ron Silliman on Experimental Language Poetry
Richard Stursberg on his book The Tower of Babble and the CBC
Robert Fulford on Book Designer Allan Fleming
Prof. Brian Trehearne on Irving Layton
Tim Bowling on Book Collecting and In the Suicide's Library
Bruce Taylor on his No End in Strangeness New and Selected Poems
Peter Cocking on book design at Douglas & McIntyre
Robert R. Reid on his Career as Printer and Book Designer
Jan and Crispin Elsted on The Barbarian Press
Eric Swanick on Jim Rimmer, graphic designer, letterpress printer
Leah Gordon on the Alcuin Society Book Design Awards
Poet bill bissett in Conversation
Will Rueter on his Aliquando Press
Charlotte Gray on Nellie McClung
Steven Galbraith & Amelia Hugill Fontanel on the Cary Collection
Stan Bevington on the Coach House Press, Part ll
David Gilmour on his novel The Perfect Order of Things
Serge Belet on 125 Kilos of Books at the Canadian Centre for Architecture #15
Phil Hall on his GG Award winning book of poetry Killdeer
Professor Jonathan Rose on J.M. Dent & Sons
Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould
Douglas Gibson on Stories, Storytelling and Storytellers
Andrew Cohen on Lester B. Pearson
Dan Boice on the publisher Mitchell Kennerley
Founder Emilie Buchwald on Milkweed Editions
Randy Bachman on collecting guitars, vinyl, and books
Allan Kornblum on the Coffee House Press
Founder Stan Bevington on the Coach House Press
George Walker on his Presses, and Wood Engravings
Joanna Skibsrud on controversy surrounding The Sentimentalists
Etgar Keret on his film Jellyfish
Cheryl Torsney on the urge to collect
James Keeline on collecting Tom Swift books
Kathy Doyle Thomas on the success of Half Price Books
Cathy Henderson and Richard Oram on the Alfred A. Knopf Archive
Charles Lohrmann on Top Ten Literary Destinations in Texas
Book Scholar George Parker on The Ryerson Press
Andrew Steeves on the Gaspereau Press
Charlie Foran on Maurice 'Rocket' Richard
Alex Ross on Modern, Classical and Popular Music and a Need for the New
Michael Gnarowski on Contact Press
Vincent Lam on Tommy Douglas
Margaret Lock on Lock's Press
Olivier Barrot on Les Editions Gallimard
Tom Boss on Copeland & Day and Stone & Kimball
Publisher Jack David on ECW Press
Joseph Boyden on Gabriel Dumont and Louis Riel
Adrian Harrington on the challenges facing antiquarian booksellers
Richard Charkin on Book Publishing and Great Publishers
John Randle on The Whittington Press
Gordon Graham on his publishing career
Roderick Cave on The Golden Cockerel Press
Richard Greene on his Award winning book of poetry Boxing the Compass
Dianne Warren on her novel Cool Water
Iain Stevenson on the history, and collecting, of 20th Century British Publishing Houses
Alexander MacLeod on his book of short stories Light Lifting
Toby Faber on the history of Faber & Faber
Frank Newfeld on his career in Canadian Book Design
Robert Baldock: On the Yale University Press, London
Book Historian Michael Winship on Ticknor and Fields; Houghton Mifflin
Carl Spadoni on McClelland and Stewart
Ruth Panofsky on the history and collecting of MacMillan Canada
Librarian Richard Virr on Book Collecting
Mac Johnson on Collecting Rare Prints
Jack Rabinovitch on The Giller Prize and how to Pick the Best Novels
Leslie Morris on Collecting the New Directions imprint
David R. Godine on the history and collecting, of his publishing house
Tim Inkster on the Porcupine's Quill
Mark Samuels Lasner on Collecting The Bodley Head
Prof. David Staines on Northrop Frye and Evaluative Criticism
Bob Fleck on Oak Knoll Books and Press
Richard Holloway on the Monster and the Saint
Adam Thorpe on the Real Robin Hood
Carmine Starnino on his poetry collection This Way Out
Allen and Pat Ahearn on Book Collecting
Jane Urquhart reading a poem called The Literary Club
Nicholson Baker on the Future of the Book
A.L. Kennedy on how to be Funny
Marie Korey on the History of the Book
Robert Fulford on Book Reviewing
Prof Kevin Gilmartin on Critic William Hazlitt
Richard Coxford on Fine Press Books: History and Collecting
Richard Landon: On Collecting Rare Books
Copyright Expert Bill Patry on Orphans and Pirates
Jane Urquhart on Lucy Maud Montgomery
Cory Doctorow on the Future of the Book
Kate Pullinger on The Mistress of Nothing
Yann Martel on What Stephen Harper is Reading
Larry Thompson on the Process of Letterpress Printing
Don Lindgren on Collecting Cooking Books
Publisher Tom Doherty on Tor Books
Science Fiction Editors David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Rocky Stinehour on The Stinehour Press
Book Artist Claire Van Vliet on the Janus Press
Galway Kinnell on Poetry
Curator Jerry Fielder on the books of Yousuf Karsh
Brad MacKay on Doug Wright, Comics and Graphic Novels
David Mitchell on experimenting with the novelistic form
Booksellers Joshua and Phyllis Heller on Artist Books
John Bidwell on the Morgan Library's Collection
Prof. Joseph Khoury on Succession in King Lear and Hamlet
Denise Mina on the Crime & Mystery Genre
Terry Griggs on her novel Thought you were Dead
Karl Siegler on Talon and Literary Book Publishing
Ha Jin on the Writer as Migrant
Donald Antrim on Fiction and Memoir
Professor Rohan Maitzen on George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Robert Bringhurst on Book Design
A.B. Yehoshua on his novel Friendly Fire
M.G. Vassanji on Mordecai Richler
Zoe Heller on her novel The Believers
Nino Ricci on Pierre Trudeau
Margaret MacMillan on History and Stephen Leacock
Author Meir Shalev on Television Satire
Henrietta Dax on Clarke's Bookshop, Cape Town
Crime novelist Margie Orford on Writing in Prison
M.G Vassanji on his Critics
Open Letter's Chad Post: on Publishing in Translation
Novelist Damon Galgut on South Africa
Andre Brink on Life & Writing in South Africa
Stephen Johnson on Random House Struik
John Metcalf on Negative Reviewing
Franschhoek Literary Festival Director Jenny Hobbs
Dawn Arnold on Northrop Frye and the Frye Festival
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Books Editor Bob Hoover
John Metcalf on Book Collecting
Chris Cleave on his novel Little Bee
Luise von Flotow on Literary Translation
Jessa Crispin on Bookslut
Keith Fiels on the American Library Association
Levi Stahl on the role of Book Publicist
Rain Taxi Editor Eric Lorberer
Bookseller Kathy Stransky on the Used Book Trade
Margaret Eaton on what is being done to help those who live with illiteracy
Robert Rulon-Miller Antiquarian Book Dealer
Librarian Rosemary Furtak: On Artist Books
Victoria Glendinning on Biography
Tanja Jacobs on playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days
Christian Mcpherson on his first collection of Poetry
Ross Raisin on his novel Out Backward
A conversation with Author Nadeem Aslam
Anne Enright on the Short Story
Joe Dunthorne on his debut novel Submarine
Bruno Racine, former President of the National Library of France, on the Role of National Libraries
Amitav Ghosh on his novel Sea of Poppies
Junot Diaz on his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Nam Le on the Short Story
Joseph Boyden on his novel Through Black Spruce
How to run a successful used Book Sale, with Beryl Barr
Aleksandar Hemon on his novel The Lazarus Project
David Carruthers on St. Armand Papers
Michael Lista on his first collection of poems, Bloom
Rebecca Rosenblum on What Constitutes a Good Short Story
What Makes Vampires so Appealing? with Patricia McCarthy
Margaret Visser on her book The Gift of Thanks
Miriam Toews on The Flying Troutmans
Craig Poile co-owner of Collected Works on running an independent bookstore
Les Petriw on what small book publishers and authors should look for in a distribution company
Harlan Coben on the Business of Publishing Books
Japp Blonk on Sound Poetry
Lindsey Davis on Historical Crime Fiction
Rawi Hage on Deniro's Game
Ed Pettit on Edgar Allan Poe
Derick Dreher on Dr. Rosenbach
Donald Antrim on his memoir The Afterlife
Frank Wilson on How to Write a Successful Book Blog
Margot Livesey on Shakespeare
Anke Feuchenberger on German Graphic Art
Glenn Patterson on Belfast, Cities, Disney, Tolstoy and Public Houses
Alaa Al Aswany on Fiction and Democracy
John Hollander on Good and Bad Poetry
Andre Alexis on the themes in his Novels
Andrew O'Hagan on Determination, Memoir, Israel, Martin Amis, Islam and Coloured Doors
Irene Gammel on Lucy Maud Montgomery & Anne of Green Gables
William Deverell on how to write Crime Mystery Novels
David Solway on What makes a Poem Great
Sally Cooper on her second novel, Tell Everything
Owner Kenneth Gloss on the Brattle Book Shop
Larry McMurtry on Writing and Bookselling
Ray Hinst on Haslam's Bookstore in Florida
Editor Ian Brookes on Chambers Dictionary
Kathryn Court, President, Penguin Books USA on Publishing
Interview with Patrick McGahern on the Antiquarian Book Trade
Margie Macmillan on Granny Bates Books
John Freeman on newspaper book reviews
Bernard Margolis on the public library and its history
John Wronoski on the role of the Archives Dealer
Author Elias Khoury
Peter Behrens on his novel The Law of Dreams
Lydia Davis on translating Proust
C. S. Richardson on Book Design
Ottawa Librarian Barbara Clubb
John Metcalf on the Role of the Short Story Editor
Interview with erotica writer Amanda Earl
Churchill Bibliographer Ron Cohen on Bibliography
Curator David Franklin on Exhibition Catalogues
Christopher Pratt Artist Poet
Barbara Reid on Illustrating Children's Books
Ramona Dearing on her short story collection So Beautiful
Lisa Moore on her novel Alligator
Tim Parks on his novel Cleaver
Michael Crummey on the historical novel
James O. Born on Writing Crime Fiction
Novelist Tim Winton: In Conversation
Andrew Miller on Literary Prizes and his novel The Optimists
Wendy Duff on the difference between Librarians and Archivists
Jim Roberts on the Evolution of Bookselling
Tim Parks on Prizes, Awards, Coetzee and Rushdie
Prof. Joseph Khoury on Hamlet, Act 1 & 2
Prof. Don Nichol on the History of Book Publishing Copyright
Fran Durako on her Kelmscott Bookshop
David Gilmour on his novel A perfect Night to go to China
Martin Levin on the role of the book review editors
Publisher Jamie Byng on Myth and the Art of Publishing
Interview with Peter Ellis: London-based Antiquarian Bookseller
Paul Muldoon on Poetry
Derek Walcott on Poetry
Gill Coleridge on the role of the Literary Agent
Neil Wilson on Founding the Ottawa International Writers Festival
Faber CEO Stephen Page on the Role of the Publisher
Lexicographer Jonathon Green talks Slang
Maggie Knaus on the Rockcliffe Bookfair
Entrepreneur Kensel Tracy on Self Publishing